Internet of Things Pilot, Barcelona

The DECODE Internet of Things pilots have been busy hosting workshops with our target communities. These included co-creation sessions where people created a Future Newspaper “DECODE News 2020” to design a citizen science campaign. The next planned workshop will be focused on teaching users how to deploy their sensors and protect data with DECODE tech.

Claim Verification 18+ Pilot, Amsterdam

With our Claim Verification 18+ pilot, the City of Amsterdam prototyped a Passport Box and mobile web app that allow users to upload passport data from the RFID-chip (inside the physical passport) onto their phone. A physical box scans the passport’s chip, and then creates a QR code that the phone can scan using the DECODE web app. Also see our new deliverable, which provides an overview of all remaining pilot activities in Amsterdam in store for 2019.

Tech Update

Our devs have reached an important milestone, running the Digital Democracy and Data Commons petition on top of DECODE tech, using Zenroom and the Coconut crypto scheme using end-to-end encryption and a new native mobile app. We are now applying similar privacy by design principles to power the BCNNow dashboard. All this happening in a few months, demonstrating how easy is to customise and deploy DECODE's modular stack for different scenarios

Algorithmic sovereignty

Algorithms have an enormous power on those whom are treated like users: they can inflict injustice, induce affective and psychological breakdowns as well as exploit their labour. In this blog, Jaromil - CTO and co-founder of Dyne.org - outlines the problems we face and some potential solutions. The piece is a shorter, adapted version of a chapter published in the new book A Vision for Europe.

DECODE was presented at the German Federal Data Ethics Commission; and at Digital Day 2019, in a session on data economy, entrepreneurship and digital skills with the presence of Commissioner Marya Gabriel and DG Connect General Director Roberto Viola.

Larisa Blazic is a London-based artist, feminist hacker and educator. As artist in residence for the DECODE project, she's developing an artistic intervention based on the principles of a union. In April she hosted a second ‘Data Union Fork’ event in Amsterdam. Keep an eye out for a video of the event to be released in June.

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